Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Genius is a long impatience.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.